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Corruption in Russia - what about the UK?

locatecorrupt | 23.05.2006 18:35

Every week, corporate rags like Sunday Times spew venom at Russia for autocratic government and corruption. Yet little is said about Britain's oligarchs which include a whole raft of people including Sir Adrian Montague, Lord Sainsbury etc. Let's start with the former as he is on the website. He is planning to buy the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, which has received billions of taxpayers money including £5.2bn this year alone.

Montague is also behind Crossrail. Montague wrote an independent financial report for the Crossrail scheme before being appointed as chair to Crossrail, which has awarded contracts to companies like Bechtel (yes Bechtel of Iraq). This man spends most of his time working out how the British Government will award taxpayers money to the most incompetent schemes for him and his friends and then the Queen and her imperalists work out which title to award them. But I guess newspapers like The Guardian, the Sunday Times do not think that is corrupt.

That is perfectly fine, sometimes referred to as the status quo.

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